VLC slow to step forward/backward

[vaidab]

I'm watching movies where I need to skip from time to time (using shortcuts: step forward and backward). My issue is that it seems the video has a slight delay from when I press to when it skips, it's under a second but once I do it multiple times the delay adds up. While using mplayerx this doesn't happen. Any ideas on what options I can tweak to figure this out?